Hattie Hamilton, 90, of Princeton, MO, passed away at Pearls II in Princeton on Wednesday, February 4, 2015. She had been a resident there for less than a year.
Hattie Ellen Hamilton was born in Oklahoma on December 14, 1924, the daughter of Frank Andrew and Nellie Elizabeth (Ward) Shippy. She was the second oldest in a family of five children. She lost her newborn brother and mother when she was 11 years old. Her Dad had to send all but the youngest children to relatives as he was unable to care for all of them. Hattie had a rough life and survived many hardships. She was a very loving person to many. She loved to correspond by mail with many, giving small gifts when she could.
Hattie found the love of her life, Edwin Hymes, in later years. Her beloved Edwin passed away on July 9, 2008, leaving her brokenhearted. She never quit speaking of him. They went to country music venues. Hattie played both the washboard and spoons. She had copied the words to many songs, filling two large binders.
Hattie had a good sense of humor. She was also a great cook, knowing how to be thrifty. She would save the bones from pork chops and chicken to boil getting broth for the next meal. She was fond of Frog Eye Salad. She liked to share her knowledge with others. Hattie liked to travel when she had the chance. She and her dear friend Peggy Fair went to Las Vegas and Branson. She thought highly of Peggy and treated her as family, telling her how to do things that Peggy probably already knew. Hattie attended First Baptist Church in Princeton when she was able.
Hattie is survived by her youngest brother, Herbert “Herbie” E. Shippy and his wife Mary of Wichita, KS.
Hattie is preceded in death by her father and mother and her brothers, Herman E. Shippy, Howard E. Shippy, and Harold E. Shippy.
Burial at the Unionville Cemetery in Unionville, MO.
(The above obituary was written personally by Hattie to be published upon her death).
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Hattie Ellen's life was a fairly routine life until her mother died. When that happened, as she wrote in the obituary above, all of the children but the youngest child Herb were placed in the homes of relatives. Several different aunts attempted to finish raising Hattie, but she was a difficult young girl and was shuffled between several of the relatives until she grew up. Her first marriage was to T C 'Carl' Ward. She had one son with him named Tommy Carroll Ward, born about 1941. She was living in the Dallas area at the time.
They divorced and she came to be in a relationship with a man named Burt Fain and she gives birth to her second child, Bernita Kay Ward. After some time of taking care of her two children, and the relationship with Burt going badly, she is living in a trailer in a trailer court in the Dallas area. There, living nearby is Whitey Pitts, who would later become her second husband. Her relationship with him begins with him sheltering her from the abuses she was suffering. He has been married for over 20 years, but in some part due to the death of a son, the marriage ends and he is now living by himself in a trailer court. He operates a concession trailer, traveling from place to place with the Gust Karras Amusement Carnival. She eventually marries him. He is around 52 and she is about 23. Interestingly, he has 3 children all older than Hattie.
After she marries him, she and her two children, Tommy and Kay would begin traveling with them through the Midwest part of the country, from Texas up north as far as Watertown, South Dakota. In 1948 she becomes pregnant and on February 11, 1949 she gives birth to another daughter, Wanda Lynn. Because he had already raised his family and had grown children, he did not want to begin raising another family, especially a baby. So arrangements were made to give the baby named Wanda up for adoption to a couple in southwest Missouri.
By 1950 they are living in Joplin at 2110 Annie Baxter and Whitey owns and operates a taxi cab. She assists him by also driving the cab and her two children are enrolled in grade school at Alcott Elementary in Joplin.
In 1950 she has become pregnant again and initially she contacts the first couple about taking the second baby. Somewhere though, the arrangements with the first couple fall through and new adoption arrangements are made with another couple in Joplin for the adoption of the second baby and on January 31, 1951 a girl is born and she named her Victoria Anne Pitts and the other couple take the baby home with them directly from the hospital when she is 4 days old. After she is taken home, she is renamed Nancy Jean.
In September 1951, Hattie and Whitey are in Osceola, Missouri and are operating their concession trailer with the carnival. On September 23rd, Whitey, 55, dies in the night. His body is taken from there to Springfield, Missouri and shipped by rail to Dallas, Texas to the Garland Funeral Home there. After Hattie buries him, she goes back to Joplin.
In November of 1951, Hattie then makes the decision to give her two older children away to an adoptive home in Sheldon, Missouri and moves to Princeton, Missouri with another man named Virgil Moore. At some point, Hattie did assume his last name of Moore for many years, but never legally married him. It was a common law arrangement. In the mid 1970's Virgil and Hattie are no longer together and she moves to Texas with her son Tom after some emotional difficulties. There she drives a school bus for a period of time while there. Upon leaving Tom's, she moves back to Princeton, MO. and marries a man named Hamilton. They are not married long and separate but she retains his name.
In January 1992 her youngest daughter locates her living in a senior citizen apartment complex in Princeton. At that point she connects briefly with her two youngest daughters that had been given up in 1949 and 1951.
She maintains a close relationship with her oldest brother Harold over the years until his death. The relationship with youngest brother Herb is estranged for many years but finally resolved toward the end of her life. She lived out the remainder of her life in Princeton where she enjoyed her circle of friends and her companion Edwin.
All of the above was put together with details shared by Hattie herself, Virgil Moore's daughter-in-law Erma Moore and other family members.
And so closes her more often than not, troubled life, when she passes away on February 4, 2015.
Hattie Ellen Hamilton was born in Oklahoma on December 14, 1924, the daughter of Frank Andrew and Nellie Elizabeth (Ward) Shippy. She was the second oldest in a family of five children. She lost her newborn brother and mother when she was 11 years old. Her Dad had to send all but the youngest children to relatives as he was unable to care for all of them. Hattie had a rough life and survived many hardships. She was a very loving person to many. She loved to correspond by mail with many, giving small gifts when she could.
Hattie found the love of her life, Edwin Hymes, in later years. Her beloved Edwin passed away on July 9, 2008, leaving her brokenhearted. She never quit speaking of him. They went to country music venues. Hattie played both the washboard and spoons. She had copied the words to many songs, filling two large binders.
Hattie had a good sense of humor. She was also a great cook, knowing how to be thrifty. She would save the bones from pork chops and chicken to boil getting broth for the next meal. She was fond of Frog Eye Salad. She liked to share her knowledge with others. Hattie liked to travel when she had the chance. She and her dear friend Peggy Fair went to Las Vegas and Branson. She thought highly of Peggy and treated her as family, telling her how to do things that Peggy probably already knew. Hattie attended First Baptist Church in Princeton when she was able.
Hattie is survived by her youngest brother, Herbert “Herbie” E. Shippy and his wife Mary of Wichita, KS.
Hattie is preceded in death by her father and mother and her brothers, Herman E. Shippy, Howard E. Shippy, and Harold E. Shippy.
Burial at the Unionville Cemetery in Unionville, MO.
(The above obituary was written personally by Hattie to be published upon her death).
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Hattie Ellen's life was a fairly routine life until her mother died. When that happened, as she wrote in the obituary above, all of the children but the youngest child Herb were placed in the homes of relatives. Several different aunts attempted to finish raising Hattie, but she was a difficult young girl and was shuffled between several of the relatives until she grew up. Her first marriage was to T C 'Carl' Ward. She had one son with him named Tommy Carroll Ward, born about 1941. She was living in the Dallas area at the time.
They divorced and she came to be in a relationship with a man named Burt Fain and she gives birth to her second child, Bernita Kay Ward. After some time of taking care of her two children, and the relationship with Burt going badly, she is living in a trailer in a trailer court in the Dallas area. There, living nearby is Whitey Pitts, who would later become her second husband. Her relationship with him begins with him sheltering her from the abuses she was suffering. He has been married for over 20 years, but in some part due to the death of a son, the marriage ends and he is now living by himself in a trailer court. He operates a concession trailer, traveling from place to place with the Gust Karras Amusement Carnival. She eventually marries him. He is around 52 and she is about 23. Interestingly, he has 3 children all older than Hattie.
After she marries him, she and her two children, Tommy and Kay would begin traveling with them through the Midwest part of the country, from Texas up north as far as Watertown, South Dakota. In 1948 she becomes pregnant and on February 11, 1949 she gives birth to another daughter, Wanda Lynn. Because he had already raised his family and had grown children, he did not want to begin raising another family, especially a baby. So arrangements were made to give the baby named Wanda up for adoption to a couple in southwest Missouri.
By 1950 they are living in Joplin at 2110 Annie Baxter and Whitey owns and operates a taxi cab. She assists him by also driving the cab and her two children are enrolled in grade school at Alcott Elementary in Joplin.
In 1950 she has become pregnant again and initially she contacts the first couple about taking the second baby. Somewhere though, the arrangements with the first couple fall through and new adoption arrangements are made with another couple in Joplin for the adoption of the second baby and on January 31, 1951 a girl is born and she named her Victoria Anne Pitts and the other couple take the baby home with them directly from the hospital when she is 4 days old. After she is taken home, she is renamed Nancy Jean.
In September 1951, Hattie and Whitey are in Osceola, Missouri and are operating their concession trailer with the carnival. On September 23rd, Whitey, 55, dies in the night. His body is taken from there to Springfield, Missouri and shipped by rail to Dallas, Texas to the Garland Funeral Home there. After Hattie buries him, she goes back to Joplin.
In November of 1951, Hattie then makes the decision to give her two older children away to an adoptive home in Sheldon, Missouri and moves to Princeton, Missouri with another man named Virgil Moore. At some point, Hattie did assume his last name of Moore for many years, but never legally married him. It was a common law arrangement. In the mid 1970's Virgil and Hattie are no longer together and she moves to Texas with her son Tom after some emotional difficulties. There she drives a school bus for a period of time while there. Upon leaving Tom's, she moves back to Princeton, MO. and marries a man named Hamilton. They are not married long and separate but she retains his name.
In January 1992 her youngest daughter locates her living in a senior citizen apartment complex in Princeton. At that point she connects briefly with her two youngest daughters that had been given up in 1949 and 1951.
She maintains a close relationship with her oldest brother Harold over the years until his death. The relationship with youngest brother Herb is estranged for many years but finally resolved toward the end of her life. She lived out the remainder of her life in Princeton where she enjoyed her circle of friends and her companion Edwin.
All of the above was put together with details shared by Hattie herself, Virgil Moore's daughter-in-law Erma Moore and other family members.
And so closes her more often than not, troubled life, when she passes away on February 4, 2015.
Hattie Hamilton, 90, of Princeton, MO, passed away at Pearls II in Princeton on Wednesday, February 4, 2015. She had been a resident there for less than a year.
Hattie Ellen Hamilton was born in Oklahoma on December 14, 1924, the daughter of Frank Andrew and Nellie Elizabeth (Ward) Shippy. She was the second oldest in a family of five children. She lost her newborn brother and mother when she was 11 years old. Her Dad had to send all but the youngest children to relatives as he was unable to care for all of them. Hattie had a rough life and survived many hardships. She was a very loving person to many. She loved to correspond by mail with many, giving small gifts when she could.
Hattie found the love of her life, Edwin Hymes, in later years. Her beloved Edwin passed away on July 9, 2008, leaving her brokenhearted. She never quit speaking of him. They went to country music venues. Hattie played both the washboard and spoons. She had copied the words to many songs, filling two large binders.
Hattie had a good sense of humor. She was also a great cook, knowing how to be thrifty. She would save the bones from pork chops and chicken to boil getting broth for the next meal. She was fond of Frog Eye Salad. She liked to share her knowledge with others. Hattie liked to travel when she had the chance. She and her dear friend Peggy Fair went to Las Vegas and Branson. She thought highly of Peggy and treated her as family, telling her how to do things that Peggy probably already knew. Hattie attended First Baptist Church in Princeton when she was able.
Hattie is survived by her youngest brother, Herbert “Herbie” E. Shippy and his wife Mary of Wichita, KS.
Hattie is preceded in death by her father and mother and her brothers, Herman E. Shippy, Howard E. Shippy, and Harold E. Shippy.
Burial at the Unionville Cemetery in Unionville, MO.
(The above obituary was written personally by Hattie to be published upon her death).
________________________
Hattie Ellen's life was a fairly routine life until her mother died. When that happened, as she wrote in the obituary above, all of the children but the youngest child Herb were placed in the homes of relatives. Several different aunts attempted to finish raising Hattie, but she was a difficult young girl and was shuffled between several of the relatives until she grew up. Her first marriage was to T C 'Carl' Ward. She had one son with him named Tommy Carroll Ward, born about 1941. She was living in the Dallas area at the time.
They divorced and she came to be in a relationship with a man named Burt Fain and she gives birth to her second child, Bernita Kay Ward. After some time of taking care of her two children, and the relationship with Burt going badly, she is living in a trailer in a trailer court in the Dallas area. There, living nearby is Whitey Pitts, who would later become her second husband. Her relationship with him begins with him sheltering her from the abuses she was suffering. He has been married for over 20 years, but in some part due to the death of a son, the marriage ends and he is now living by himself in a trailer court. He operates a concession trailer, traveling from place to place with the Gust Karras Amusement Carnival. She eventually marries him. He is around 52 and she is about 23. Interestingly, he has 3 children all older than Hattie.
After she marries him, she and her two children, Tommy and Kay would begin traveling with them through the Midwest part of the country, from Texas up north as far as Watertown, South Dakota. In 1948 she becomes pregnant and on February 11, 1949 she gives birth to another daughter, Wanda Lynn. Because he had already raised his family and had grown children, he did not want to begin raising another family, especially a baby. So arrangements were made to give the baby named Wanda up for adoption to a couple in southwest Missouri.
By 1950 they are living in Joplin at 2110 Annie Baxter and Whitey owns and operates a taxi cab. She assists him by also driving the cab and her two children are enrolled in grade school at Alcott Elementary in Joplin.
In 1950 she has become pregnant again and initially she contacts the first couple about taking the second baby. Somewhere though, the arrangements with the first couple fall through and new adoption arrangements are made with another couple in Joplin for the adoption of the second baby and on January 31, 1951 a girl is born and she named her Victoria Anne Pitts and the other couple take the baby home with them directly from the hospital when she is 4 days old. After she is taken home, she is renamed Nancy Jean.
In September 1951, Hattie and Whitey are in Osceola, Missouri and are operating their concession trailer with the carnival. On September 23rd, Whitey, 55, dies in the night. His body is taken from there to Springfield, Missouri and shipped by rail to Dallas, Texas to the Garland Funeral Home there. After Hattie buries him, she goes back to Joplin.
In November of 1951, Hattie then makes the decision to give her two older children away to an adoptive home in Sheldon, Missouri and moves to Princeton, Missouri with another man named Virgil Moore. At some point, Hattie did assume his last name of Moore for many years, but never legally married him. It was a common law arrangement. In the mid 1970's Virgil and Hattie are no longer together and she moves to Texas with her son Tom after some emotional difficulties. There she drives a school bus for a period of time while there. Upon leaving Tom's, she moves back to Princeton, MO. and marries a man named Hamilton. They are not married long and separate but she retains his name.
In January 1992 her youngest daughter locates her living in a senior citizen apartment complex in Princeton. At that point she connects briefly with her two youngest daughters that had been given up in 1949 and 1951.
She maintains a close relationship with her oldest brother Harold over the years until his death. The relationship with youngest brother Herb is estranged for many years but finally resolved toward the end of her life. She lived out the remainder of her life in Princeton where she enjoyed her circle of friends and her companion Edwin.
All of the above was put together with details shared by Hattie herself, Virgil Moore's daughter-in-law Erma Moore and other family members.
And so closes her more often than not, troubled life, when she passes away on February 4, 2015.
Hattie Ellen Hamilton was born in Oklahoma on December 14, 1924, the daughter of Frank Andrew and Nellie Elizabeth (Ward) Shippy. She was the second oldest in a family of five children. She lost her newborn brother and mother when she was 11 years old. Her Dad had to send all but the youngest children to relatives as he was unable to care for all of them. Hattie had a rough life and survived many hardships. She was a very loving person to many. She loved to correspond by mail with many, giving small gifts when she could.
Hattie found the love of her life, Edwin Hymes, in later years. Her beloved Edwin passed away on July 9, 2008, leaving her brokenhearted. She never quit speaking of him. They went to country music venues. Hattie played both the washboard and spoons. She had copied the words to many songs, filling two large binders.
Hattie had a good sense of humor. She was also a great cook, knowing how to be thrifty. She would save the bones from pork chops and chicken to boil getting broth for the next meal. She was fond of Frog Eye Salad. She liked to share her knowledge with others. Hattie liked to travel when she had the chance. She and her dear friend Peggy Fair went to Las Vegas and Branson. She thought highly of Peggy and treated her as family, telling her how to do things that Peggy probably already knew. Hattie attended First Baptist Church in Princeton when she was able.
Hattie is survived by her youngest brother, Herbert “Herbie” E. Shippy and his wife Mary of Wichita, KS.
Hattie is preceded in death by her father and mother and her brothers, Herman E. Shippy, Howard E. Shippy, and Harold E. Shippy.
Burial at the Unionville Cemetery in Unionville, MO.
(The above obituary was written personally by Hattie to be published upon her death).
________________________
Hattie Ellen's life was a fairly routine life until her mother died. When that happened, as she wrote in the obituary above, all of the children but the youngest child Herb were placed in the homes of relatives. Several different aunts attempted to finish raising Hattie, but she was a difficult young girl and was shuffled between several of the relatives until she grew up. Her first marriage was to T C 'Carl' Ward. She had one son with him named Tommy Carroll Ward, born about 1941. She was living in the Dallas area at the time.
They divorced and she came to be in a relationship with a man named Burt Fain and she gives birth to her second child, Bernita Kay Ward. After some time of taking care of her two children, and the relationship with Burt going badly, she is living in a trailer in a trailer court in the Dallas area. There, living nearby is Whitey Pitts, who would later become her second husband. Her relationship with him begins with him sheltering her from the abuses she was suffering. He has been married for over 20 years, but in some part due to the death of a son, the marriage ends and he is now living by himself in a trailer court. He operates a concession trailer, traveling from place to place with the Gust Karras Amusement Carnival. She eventually marries him. He is around 52 and she is about 23. Interestingly, he has 3 children all older than Hattie.
After she marries him, she and her two children, Tommy and Kay would begin traveling with them through the Midwest part of the country, from Texas up north as far as Watertown, South Dakota. In 1948 she becomes pregnant and on February 11, 1949 she gives birth to another daughter, Wanda Lynn. Because he had already raised his family and had grown children, he did not want to begin raising another family, especially a baby. So arrangements were made to give the baby named Wanda up for adoption to a couple in southwest Missouri.
By 1950 they are living in Joplin at 2110 Annie Baxter and Whitey owns and operates a taxi cab. She assists him by also driving the cab and her two children are enrolled in grade school at Alcott Elementary in Joplin.
In 1950 she has become pregnant again and initially she contacts the first couple about taking the second baby. Somewhere though, the arrangements with the first couple fall through and new adoption arrangements are made with another couple in Joplin for the adoption of the second baby and on January 31, 1951 a girl is born and she named her Victoria Anne Pitts and the other couple take the baby home with them directly from the hospital when she is 4 days old. After she is taken home, she is renamed Nancy Jean.
In September 1951, Hattie and Whitey are in Osceola, Missouri and are operating their concession trailer with the carnival. On September 23rd, Whitey, 55, dies in the night. His body is taken from there to Springfield, Missouri and shipped by rail to Dallas, Texas to the Garland Funeral Home there. After Hattie buries him, she goes back to Joplin.
In November of 1951, Hattie then makes the decision to give her two older children away to an adoptive home in Sheldon, Missouri and moves to Princeton, Missouri with another man named Virgil Moore. At some point, Hattie did assume his last name of Moore for many years, but never legally married him. It was a common law arrangement. In the mid 1970's Virgil and Hattie are no longer together and she moves to Texas with her son Tom after some emotional difficulties. There she drives a school bus for a period of time while there. Upon leaving Tom's, she moves back to Princeton, MO. and marries a man named Hamilton. They are not married long and separate but she retains his name.
In January 1992 her youngest daughter locates her living in a senior citizen apartment complex in Princeton. At that point she connects briefly with her two youngest daughters that had been given up in 1949 and 1951.
She maintains a close relationship with her oldest brother Harold over the years until his death. The relationship with youngest brother Herb is estranged for many years but finally resolved toward the end of her life. She lived out the remainder of her life in Princeton where she enjoyed her circle of friends and her companion Edwin.
All of the above was put together with details shared by Hattie herself, Virgil Moore's daughter-in-law Erma Moore and other family members.
And so closes her more often than not, troubled life, when she passes away on February 4, 2015.
